“Thank God for books and music and things I can think about.”
― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon

“If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.”
― Albert Einstein

“Ah, music," he said, wiping his eyes. "A magic beyond all we do here!”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

“I had a boyfriend who told me I’d never succeed, never be nominated for a Grammy, never have a hit song, and that he hoped I’d fail. I said to him, ‘Someday, when we’re not together, you won’t be able to order a cup of coffee at the fucking deli without hearing or seeing me.”
― Lady Gaga

“Girls you've gotta know when it's time to turn the page.”
― Tori Amos, Tori Amos: From the Choirgirl Hotel

“There ain't no devil, only God when he's drunk.”
― Tom Waits

“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“The music is not in the notes,
but in the silence between.”
― Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

“I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.”
― Tom Waits

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

“Would you destroy Something perfect in order to make it beautiful?”
― Gerard Way

“Where words fail, music speaks.”
― Hans Christian Andersen

“Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent”
― Victor Hugo

“There ain't no devil, only God when he's drunk.”
― Tom Waits

“Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard
Are sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on.”
― John Keats, The Complete Poems

“A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.”
― Bob Dylan

“Music . . . can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.”
― Leonard Bernstein

“Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.”
― Robert Fripp

“There are two means of refuge from the misery of life — music and cats.”
― Albert Schweitzer